Shaft length on 18 Fisherman

[Kracker Jack]

Them Natural Light beer cans in the last pic looked like my build when I started wacking and jacking on the stringers!!!!!! The Nattys helped out alot to numb the itch !!!!!

[jasoncooperpcola]

I have never tried Natty Light, Kracker. I nmust have found about fifty empty cans in the stringers, some of them i dont know how they got where they did.

Here are a couple pics of the gas tank. You can clearly see the hole in the close up. Notice its only corroded where the foam was.





I linked a website on a thread here a few months ago about the harm of foaming gas tanks in. Give me a while to find it.

Found it; www.yachtsurvey.com/fueltank.htm

[Kracker Jack]

Originally Posted by jsgeorge4x4

when i re-cored the fuel tank hatch last year the pieces of the stringers i could bash on were solid, when i had the rod boxes out to fiberglass reinforce them two weeks ago the cross stringers were solid as per a mallet, and so are the stringers under the splashwell

you guys just now have me paranoid about what i cant see, after reading all the threads of guys having replaced them

its a shame everything tends to get waterlogged on these boats

That is the reason why I did my stringers so simple, and why I didn't put a fuel cell below deck. In my opinion on my boat the plywood on the floor was good enough for a shear brace rather than glassing a bunch cross stringers. I simply wanted the water and moisture to get in and then the water and moisture to get out. I also have over drill every hole on this boat so far then fill with reinforced thickening resin and drilled the hole to size so all my thru-transom penatrations are sealed. My outboard motor bracket holes will be done the same way. There's a lot you can do to prevent rot.

[Stinky_Hooker]

Natty light is alot like making love in a canoe, its f^*k^&% close to water.

[jasoncooperpcola]

Originally Posted by Kracker Jack

That is the reason why I did my stringers so simple, and why I didn't put a fuel cell below deck. In my opinion on my boat the plywood on the floor was good enough for a shear brace rather than glassing a bunch cross stringers. I simply wanted the water and moisture to get in and then the water and moisture to get out. I also have over drill every hole on this boat so far then fill with reinforced thickening resin and drilled the hole to size so all my thru-transom penatrations are sealed. My outboard motor bracket holes will be done the same way. There's a lot you can do to prevent rot.

Agreed 100 percent. When i pull the liner off the V20 i am looking for soft spots in the stringers. If i find any i will repair them then locate the source of why they rotted. Also i am glassing any open spots to preserve the stringers. I might even pull the tank and get rid of all foam. Kracker has a point, most places do rot due to raw wood and a simple coat of epoxy in holes will prevent that. I purchased West Systems book called Repairing Fiberglass Boats. Best six dollars i have ever spent in my opinion. I learned quite a bit.

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by jasoncooperpcola

Agreed 100 percent. When i pull the liner off the V20 i am looking for soft spots in the stringers. If i find any i will repair them then locate the source of why they rotted. Also i am glassing any open spots to preserve the stringers. I might even pull the tank and get rid of all foam. Kracker has a point, most places do rot due to raw wood and a simple coat of epoxy in holes will prevent that. I purchased West Systems book called Repairing Fiberglass Boats. Best six dollars i have ever spent in my opinion. I learned quite a bit.

The pic above is pretty dramatic proof of the answer whether to foam a tank or not...becomes a no-brainer pretty quickly after that...and I need to pick up on of those books you mention, too...

[jasoncooperpcola]

Originally Posted by reelapeelin

The pic above is pretty dramatic proof of the answer whether to foam a tank or not...becomes a no-brainer pretty quickly after that...and I need to pick up on of those books you mention, too...

If the V20 needs a new tank, i may have to reconsider my not so good opionion on big plastic tanks. Does anyone even make a sixty gallon plastic fuel tank? Are they ok to use? I have always been leery of plastic tanks. But with the corrosion issues of aluminum they may have a benefit. I havent even looked at my fuel tank in about three or four years!

[phatdaddy]

jason, here's one about 50 miles west of you in daphne. pm stuarbc and see if he still has it



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